Matthew Denton is moving into Nettleton’s position in the Chicago, Ill., area. Lynch will be replaced by Drew Long in central Illinois and St. Louis, Mo., and Jason Tuma in Northeast Ohio. Sikich also appointed industry vertical leaders, including Jill Boyleas for not-for-profit, Brian LeFevre for state and local government, and Melinda DeCorte for the new federal vertical.

The LinkedIn profiles for both Lynch and Nettleton show they moved into the managing partner positions in May.

Lynch, who has been with the firm for almost 12 years, was partner-in-charge for the non-profit business from September 2011. He joined Sikich after 13 years three months at McGladrey & Pullen. 

Nettleton has worked at Sikich since May 2020 and has been market leader for northern Illinois since May 2021 and partner-in-charge of assurance since May 2020. He was previously with Grant Thornton International from April 2013 and Grant Thornton from September 1991. At Grant Thornton International, Nettleton was global leader for quality and enterprise risk for the last two years of his tenure.

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Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards.  Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He  has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that.  A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind